help ID these please

lovely day today so doing the garden but before i mow the lawn can anyone tell me what these are ? found them growing out of the grass at the bottom of the garden. Are they weeds?

 

First one looks like wheat
Second one Lords and ladies

But i could be wrong

 

Did you have a bird seed feeder nearby? I get lots of wheat seeds germinating under the feeders here. It's a cheap large seed, so is used to bulk out bird-seed, however, most of your feathered visitors discard it!
Lords and ladies, or wild arum. It has a white arum-shaped flower within the next month or so, and then a stem with shiny red berries late summer / early autumn. If you have children, beware, the berries are poisonous. But then again, so many garden plants are, as children we were brought up to put nothing in our mouths from the garden, unless we were told it WAS safe to do so...

 

thanks guys . No bird feeder in my garden though. As for lords and ladies i do have a plant of lords and ladies but that ones leaves are different same shape but the one i have in a pot has variegated marking were this one is plain?

 

think i will get shut of the wheat thing and keep the other see what appears then

 

Sounds like you have a "posh" cultivar in your pot!

Wild arum normally has plain green leaves, sometimes with dark purple / black splodges on.....

 

just googled it seems lords and ladies is the same plant as wild arum? is that so?

 

hahah @Sian in Belgium i will have to tell my neighbour that she gave it me as a gift

 

shall i keep it? or can it become a pest?

 

Personally, I would keep it, and keep an eye on it to prevent it spreading.

In the wild, it tends to grow in dappled shade, so often at the base of hedges, or the edge of woodland. I guess that is a shadey corner of the garden? I have never seen a variegated form in the wild, so your plant-in-a-pot is probably a sport, that has been propagated. The two would look good together though, as their foliage would contrast nicely!

 

thanks @Sian in Belgium its underneath a tree so dappled shade when the pot one is a little bigger i will plant it next to the other then

 

Come August your Lords & Ladies should look like this ...



The blackbirds lurve those juicy red berries!

 

The ones in your photo look like Arum maculatum...............


The one that you mentioned in a pot could be Arum italicum.

 

yep @longk thats the one